Senior Design Systems Designer: Lead Suitcase Visuals

AmTrav; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, our design system, across web and mobile. You will work with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to make high quality design the default across surfaces used by customers.

You’ll set typography, color, tokens and accessibility for WCAG 2.2 AA, write component specs for AI tooling, and drive governance, adoption and parity between design and code.

Qualifications

• Strong product design experience leading design systems for web and mobile.
• Deep grasp of typography, colour, layout, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Judgement on when to introduce new components vs reuse existing ones.
• Experience designing tokens, theming, documentation, and workflows connecting design to code.
• Practical experience delivering WCAG 2.2 AA compliant components.
• Familiarity with AI prototyping tools and MCP tooling.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for Suitcase with design and engineering leadership and translate vision into a roadmap.
• Own the visual language, token architecture, and foundations of Suitcase.
• Collaborate with content design and localisation on content tokens.

Skills

Design systems

Typography

Layout & spacing

Motion & micro-interactions

Token systems

WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility

AI prototyping tools

Roadmap and governance

Mentoring designers

Tools

Storybook

Figma

Code Connect

Job description

Perk is seeking a Senior Design Systems Designer to own the craft and visual direction of Suitcase, our design system, across web and mobile. You will work with front-end engineers, content designers and product designers to make high quality design the default across surfaces used by customers.

You’ll set typography, color, tokens and accessibility for WCAG 2.2 AA, write component specs for AI tooling, and drive governance, adoption and parity between design and code.